Electric motor.



No. 735,052. PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903.

N. G. BASSETT. ELECTRIC MOTOR.

APPLIOATION FILED DEC. 5, 1900.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NORLWIAN C. BASSETT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

ELECTRIC MOTOR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 735,052, dated August 4, 1903.

Application filed December 5,1900. Serial No. 38,760. (No modeL'. I

T at whom it may concern: shaft, which are provided with oil-wells, as Be it known that I, NORMAN C. BAs-sETT, a shown in Fig. 4. Each bearing has one or citizen of the United States, residing at Bosmore arms h, by means of which it can be ton,countyof Suifolk,State ofMassachusetts, fastened to the head C by a bolt 1. The 55 have invented certain new and useful Imbearings K of the counter-shaft have similar provements in Electric Motors, of which the oil-wells in them. The wells extend b low following is a specification. their shafts, so as to give room for a body of This invention relates to what are known oil L, which can be carried up to the journal asback-gearedelectricmotors,in whichthe by any suitable device, such as a ring M, 60 IO armature-shaft carries apinion meshing with hung on the journal and dipping in the oil. a spur-gear on one end of the counter-shaft, A cap it covers the top of the well. When which carries at its other end a belt-pulley, it is desired to change the counter-shaft the objectbeingto reduce thespeed ofthe beltfrom one side of the motor, as shown in full pulley, so that the motor can be used for drivlines in Fig. 1, to a position above the mo- 5 I5 ing slow-running machinery. The countertor, as indicated by the dotted lines in said shaft is parallel with the armature-shaft and figure, the bolts D are removed and the heads is journaled in hearings on the frame of the C are rotated a quarter-turn. The bolt-holes motor. in the heads and magnet-frame now coin- The object of my invention is to providea cide again, so that the bolts can be replaced. 70 construction by means of which the counter- In the same way the heads can be given anshaft with its spurgear and belt-pulley can other quarter-turn to bring the counter-shaft be angularly shifted to any one of several poto a position diametrically opposite that in sitions around the periphery of the motorwhich it is shown in Fig. 1. By increasing frame in order to adapt the motor for use in the number of bolts and spacing them at 75 various situations. equal distances apart the counter-shaft can In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is be shifted to a corresponding number of poan end elevation of a motor embodying my sitions. Every time the heads are rotated to invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the shift the counter-shaft the bearings of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail cross-section on a armature-shaft and counter-shaft must be 80 0 vertical axial plane of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a secchanged to. keep the oil-wells below the jourtional elevation, on an enlarged scale, of the nals. The heads are provided with extra boltself-oiling bearing for the armature-shaft. holes spaced equidistant at the same angular The field-magnet frame Aof the motor has distances as the bolts for fastening the heads a cylindrical periphery concentric with the O and symmetrically arranged around the 85 armature-shaft B, which is journaled in bearshaft, so that after removing the fasteningings in the two circular heads C, which are bolts the bearings can be given a partial backfitted to rotate on theends ofthe magnet-frame ward rotation to compensate for the forward and are securely clamped against said ends rotation of the heads and then be bolted in by screw-bolts D, spaced at equal distances place again. The bearings for the counter- 90. 4o apart on a circle concentric with the shaft B. shaft also can be backwardly rotated by The edges of the heads are faced off to fit flat loosening the bolts which hold thecaps 0 against the ends of the frame, as shown in The magnet-frame is provided with legs the broken-away portion of Fig. 2. On one which may be integral, but are preferably side of each head there is a bracket or proformed on a saddle N, in which the magnet- 5 jection C, forming a journal-bearing for the frame rests. The frame has a circumferencounter-shaft E. Caps C retain the shaft in tial cylindrical rib. a with dovetailedges enplace. A spur-gear F is secured on one end gaging with a dovetail groove in the saddle, of the counter-shaft, meshing with a pinion which is curved to fit the rib. One side of on the armature-shaft. The other end of the the groove is preferably formed by a wearing- [O0 counter-shaft carries a belt-pulley G. Each strip n, backed by an angular filling-piece at, head C carries bearings H for the armatureboth of which are clamped against the rib by a segment N and fastening-screws 91 The strip and filling-piece can be adjusted for wear by set-screws "a This construction permits the whole motor to be angularly adjusted around the axis of the armature-shaft to occupy positions intermediate to those provided for by shifting the counter-shaft or to take upfslack in the belt driven by the pulley G.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. The combination with' an electric-motor frame, of rotatably-adjustable heads having lateral projections, armature-shaft bearings concentric with said heads, and counter-shaft bearings in said projections, said bearings having oil-Wells in their lower sides and being rotatably adjustable to compensate for the rotation of the heads.

2. An electric motor having its frame provided with a circumferential cylindrical rib,

of a saddle fitting said rib, and means for clamping the rib the saddle.

3. The combination in a back-geared electric motor, of a saddle for supporting the motor frame, revolving shafts mechanically united and means for angularly adjusting the frame in the saddle.

4. In a back-gear device for electric machines, the combination of a back-gear axle, brackets betweenthe machine and said axle, bearings arranged in the brackets for the axles, and provided with oiling mechanism, and means for adjusting the position of the bearings with respect to the brackets and keeping the oiling mechanism horizontal.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 3d day of December, 1900.

NORMAN (J. BASSETT.

Witnesses:

DUGALD MoKILLoP, JOHN J. WALKER. 

